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By Nicol Óg, son of the abbot of Cong, Co Mayo. Ua Dubthaigh acted as his amanuensis. The text is an
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The Life of St Féchín of Fore

The following

Life of St Féchin of Fore is now for the first time published from the unique copy in the Phillips Library, Cheltenham, No. 9194, which is dated 1329. No other Irish Life of Féchín is now known; but in the seventeenth century Colgan had three, one taken from the Book of Imaidh in Connaught: another stylo planè vetusto et magnae fidei, but wanting the beginning and end: a third vetusto et eleganti metro, 74 distichis constante, in quorum paenè singulis singula narrantur miracula. Besides these three Irish Lives, he had a Latin Life by AugustinMagraidin, a canon regular of the monastery of Inis na Naemh in the county of Longford. This Life Colgan has printed in the Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, Lovanii, 1645, pp. 130–133. It is followed in the same work, pp. 133–139, by a second Life —alia Vita seu Supplementum— in Colgan's own Latin, compiled from the three Irish Lives in his possession. From Colgan is derived all that Lanigan has written about St Féchin in his Ecclesiastical History of Ireland.

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Féchin or Féchine corvulus was also called Mo-ecca, under which name he is commemorated in the

Calendar of Oengus at Jan. 20.So in the Martyrology of Tallaght. But in the Calendar of Marianus Gorman St Féchín's day is the 19th January. His pedigree is thus given in the Book of Leinster, p. 352, col. 7: Fechine Fabair Mac Cailchiarna, Maic Cillini, Maic Grillini nó Cillini, Maic Cail, Maic Aeda, Maic Saim, Maic Airt Chirb, Maic Niad Corb. He died, according to the Annals of Ulster and the Four Masters, in the year 664 of the Yellow Plague, a pestilence said to have been brought on the Irish by the pitiless prayers of himself and other saints. His Life now printed is noticeable as to its form for the alliterative exordium and for the repetition in verse of the narratives already told in prose.See Revue Celtique, tome 5, p. 364, lines 19–24 and note. Such repetitions are found in the Voyage of Snedgus and Mac Riagla, Revue Celtique, tome 9, p. 14, and two copies of the Voyage of Mael duin, ibid. As to its substance, the stories of the leper, paragraphs 37, 38, and the drowned children, paragraph 43, and the incident of the water-horse, paragraphs 41, 42, will interest students of hagiology and folklore.